Quotes About Acceptance

You just hope to do music that people will embrace... music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

It's all about balance, and recognizing that no one is perfect.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

I used to diet all the time as a kid. I started dieting in, like, kindergarten. I don't recommend it, but I also don't judge people who want to do things with their body.

I would recommend these books: 'Dream Big, Little One,' by Vashti Harrison, 'I Am Enough,' by Grace Byers, 'Hair Like Mine,' by LaTashia M. Perry, 'Hair Love,' by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley... and of course, my book!

I recommend to any women just to find a gym that's got proper women there; lots of mums and lots of regular shaped women.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.

I understand that not everyone shares my faith and some find it difficult to reconcile with their own beliefs.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

For the record, I am gay.

I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It's inevitable, and it's part of the deal. It's part of the job description.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought the world was ending my junior year of high school after a dye job reacted badly with my perm and left me with a sparse and burnt up hairline. Even though I went natural a few years later, my edges never seemed to recover.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.